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john roach on 21 Oct 15"The year that Skype launched its calling service, the world was in the midst of a sonic crisis: the ringtone. Mobile phones - to which Skype was an indirect competitor - were becoming ubiquitous, and so were the personalized sounds that went with them. Shortly before the company put out the first of several betas in August of 2003, an analyst report predicted that ringtone sales would soon bring in more money than CD singles."